Reality outpaces the record we keep of it.
I am a scientist and artist, studying how we come to know things, whether we are right to, and how to instill epistemic rigor into non-human agents. I write and build instruments to find and share the answers.
LivedAbuja, Nigeriahome · Johannesburg, South Africa · Casablanca, Morocco
NowFounders Inc. · San Francisco, California · Philosophy + Physics, University of Kansas · senior year
BeforeApplications engineering intern at Texas Instruments · GaN motor-driver technology · Investigations at The International Center for Investigative Reporting · sports & elections
BuildingSTATSWING decision intelligence for sports · SCOUTSWING sports scouting platform · PINGBACK instruments for augmenting human intelligence
PublicationsThe ICIR — investigation into ₦2bn in fire-fighting equipment abandoned at Abuja Stadium (co-authored)
Independent — investigation into the disenfranchisement of over a million teenage voters in the 2023 Nigerian General Elections
The ICIR — Eulogy: “At last, Messi immortalises his football fairytale”
Independent — investigation into the disenfranchisement of over a million teenage voters in the 2023 Nigerian General Elections
The ICIR — Eulogy: “At last, Messi immortalises his football fairytale”
PolicyKU Student Senate — authored a resolution finding KU Housing misapplied FLSA dual-employment law
StudiesPhilosophy of Science · Epistemology · Metalogic · Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Selected writing recent & moving
Reality Exceeds its Record, but it Need not Again
The thesis under everything — writing it down, finally.
How I Stopped Producing Good Mathematics
On cheap motivation, and the kind that scales.
Epistemic Injustice
Fricker, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Anita Hill.
A Catharsis: Interrogating the African Leadership Academy
The transcript that cost me Brown — and the institution that would not answer.
How Do We Talk About Work?
Why I keep intercepting my own work before anyone sees it.